OT Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy questions

[Mike_Shuswap]

Well, I survived the proceedure. As anyone who's been through this knows, the couple days before are much worse than the actual proceedure.

The colonoscopy was normal :)

During the gastroscopy the Doc took 2 biopsies, one from the stomach and one from the esophageal _ _ (?).  Does anyone know if this is just standard, or did they think they found something? I wasn't thinking clear enough to ask, and I have to wait at least 14 days for the results.

Now I feel like c-rap. I can.t get my hands and feet warm. I am off my usual timetable for meds, not sure if this is a factor.

I'm supposed to take Rebif tonight, but I'll pass till tommorow.

Thanks,   Mike

[Sailorsong]

It wasn't frightening at all. I had gone through a colonoscopy years ago when they didn't put you under at all, but of course they didn't remove anything that time.

This time I woke up enough to be able and look at the monitors and see inside myself. And I definitely felt the tugging as they removed the polyps.

Dennis

[Mike_Shuswap]

Thanks folks.

Turns out I was so cold because I had a fever of 102. Took 2 Tylenol extra strength three times during the night and beat the fever. Good thing too, my wife was gonna make me call the Doc if I couldn't shake it.

Sarah and Opie, the stuff I had to drink wasn't hard to swallow at all. I don't remember what it's called, but the drugist sold me a generic brand that was orange flavoured and tasted pretty good, believe it or not. It's what this product is designed to do that's quite uncomfortable, but I lived through it.

Dennis, I was told I may have some awareness at some point during the proceedure, but would feel no pain. Lucky for me I missed the whole thing. One minute I was listening to the folks in the OR, the next I was comming to in the recovery area.

Guitar_grrrl, I had a nice bowl of wonton soup which didn't warm me up so much, but it felt soooo soothing to my throat and sooo good to have a little food in my belly.

Alex, good luck later this year, I'm sure you'll be fine. Make sure and get the tasty stuff, why add to the discomfort.

Thanks to your replies I feel a little less concerned about the biopsies. I have an appointment with my GP in 2 weeks to go over the results, so I won't worry about it till I find out if there's something to worry about.

Mike

[SarahL2491]

ITS THAT GO LIGHTLY STUFF THAT'S SICKENING

[opie74]

I have had both procedures, but not at the same time.  I had a sample taken of my colon...benign.  they had to stretch mu esophogus because food was getting stuck.  I am du the upper procedure again soon.  As for the other end, there is a prep that is not so bad.  You quickly drink one bottle and then follow it with colace.  You hav another colace the next morning.  MUCH BETTER, ASK about it next time.

Try not to worry, it us usually nothing!

[tingletingle]

double ditto. No idea about the whole gig but I think I will find out this year.

Sailorsong, how frightening was your experience. I read about people waking up during procedures but wasn't sure that it is real until now.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Mike.

Blessings
Alex

[Guitar_grrrl]

Just echoing Dennis...ditto.  Glad you survived - now go have a nice bowl of soup to warm up.  I'm often cold when I'm hungry - is that you, too?

[Sailorsong]

They probably found some polyps and they always do biopsy's on them even though they are almost alway benign.  I went through the same procedure a couple of years ago and they removed some polyps during the procedure on me. Unfortunately I was  starting to wake up at the time so I felt them removing them.

Dennis

[SarahL2491]

now if they could just eliminate (no pun intended) the 3 days prior, I would have one!  ha ha ha ha......I would be throwing up before I finished the "prep" liquids.........

glad you survived, don't have a clue what the biopsies were.....call medical records where you had it done, in a couple days, somehow I think the written report should be ready by then, perhaps not the biopsy but at least their "thoughts".....